Last week, Still Processing opened its doors at Nxt Museum, and despite the glacial temperatures, visitors lined up outside, buzzing with anticipation. Upon attending, I was floored—not just by the scale of the exhibition, but by the sheer energy of the crowd, a testament to its undeniable pull. There’s something exhilarating about witnessing an audience so eager to step into the unknown, especially when that unknown takes the shape of an exhibition designed to disorient, overwhelm, and completely rewire your perception of reality.
Curated by Bogomir Doringer, Still Processing isn’t just another new media exhibition—it’s a psychological labyrinth. A space where technology and human cognition collide, where digital manipulation and raw sensory experience blur into one. The layout itself feels like a maze, guiding you through installations that oscillate between extremes: hyper-sensory and stripped bare, deeply human and entirely synthetic. One moment, you’re grounded in your body, hyper-aware of your own presence. The next, you’re lost in a landscape so warped, so artificially constructed, it almost renders you inhuman.
At the heart of the exhibition is a question that lingers long after you leave: how much of what we see is real? The works on display—ranging from algorithmic light sculptures to AI-generated hallucinations—push us to confront the way technology is reshaping our perception of the world. We live in an era where the boundaries between organic and synthetic, reality and simulation, are increasingly porous. Still Processing captures this moment with unsettling clarity, forcing us to navigate two intertwined perspectives: the machine’s gaze versus our own.
This tension is what makes the exhibition so compelling. It doesn’t just present a dystopian or utopian vision of technology’s role in our lives—it drops us into the grey space between, where things are constantly shifting, constantly being reinterpreted. Walking through the exhibition, I felt a strange duality: on one hand, completely raw and human, hyper-aware of the physicality of the experience. On the other, slightly alienated, as if my perception had been hijacked by something outside of myself.
Still Processing isn’t about offering answers. It’s about leaving us suspended in uncertainty, forcing us to process in real time. And in that sense, it’s one of the most fitting reflections of the present moment—where technology accelerates faster than our ability to fully grasp its implications, and we’re all just trying to keep up.
The exhibition runs until October 5, 2025, at Nxt Museum in Amsterdam. If you haven’t stepped inside yet, prepare to lose your footing.
Tickets available at nxtmuseum.com.
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